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Capturing mouse/keyboard events outside of form (app running in background)

Hi guys, I have an app that runs in the background (minimized/task tray). I need to be able to detect mouse activity (clicks, move) as well as keyboard activity. What is the best way to do this given the constraint that my window is not "focused" ? ...

BlackBerry AutoComplete field with white background?

I have a problem with changing the background of AutoCompleteField. No matter what I try, the background is gray all the time (isn't it strange it is gray by default in the first place...). Anyone knows how to make the background white (like it is for instance in BlackBerry email client)? Thanks in advance! ...

[IPhone] How to subClass UITableViewCell and use it to not clear UILabel background color on UITabeViewCell selected?

Dear All, In my app, I use a label to display a specified color by set background color in a customized UITableViewCell (because this color maybe changed according incoming data from internet), after viewDidLoad, everything is ok, but when this cell is selected (highlighted) the color is cleared. After searching, I found out that some ...

Dynamic transparent background in my Android App Java

OK, So I want to set the background to a transparent image and change the color of the background on an event firing. I can set the background image to a resource in an xml file, and I can also change the color of a TextView on event firing, but for some reason I can't do both at the same time. Do I need to create a drawable or something...

iphone sdk: Is it possible to play audio playlist in the background in iOS 4

I tried to implement this. My original post is here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3297571/iphone-playing-audio-playlist-in-the-background So after some testing I begin to doubt whether it's even possible. does anyone know whether it's possible to use AVAudioPlayer to play multiple tracks in the background? I myself haven't found a...

Can I load a big image ?

Hello, I was wondering what is the biggest image size I can use as background in a UIVIEW. I have an image of size 320 by 1700 which is scrollable and was wondering if this is going to be an issue loading it to the heap mem. Cheers. ...

UITableView background showing in Interface Builder but in simulator

Hi all, does anyone know why, if I add an image UIImage as background, I can clearly see it behind my grouped table view in Interface Builder. However when I launch the app, the background is not showing at all, both in simulator and device. Apart from adding the image, I suppose I already did all the steps at TableView programmatic si...

What is the correct syntax to refer to a gradient background color in javascript

Hello, I have a piece of javascript code like this right now. document.getElementById(pos).style.backgroundColor='#800080'; I want to refer to the following gradient background color instead of a staic value '#800080' in the code. .myBK {background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #ccc, #000);} What is the correct syntax to do that? I...

WPF button background in windows 7

Hi I had windows xp before and setting the wpf button background always worked but since windows 7 the background is always set to blue. How could i fix this? ...

CSS Compatibility on IE. Box shadows

I'm creating a website and I need to style some boxes like this image here. Although, their height aren't fixed for it's dynamic content I used -webkit-border-imageand -moz-image-borderand it worked perfectly. Unfortunately, IE is a bad bad guy and I wanted it to appear properly. I thought about using CSS3 with box-shadow and -webkit-gr...

Cufon is messing up my transparent PNG backgrounds.

I have a few divs with a repeating background PNG (that as an alpha channel set to ~50% opacity); the purpose is to give a white transparent background to the divs. The divs render great in all current browsers. But when I call my Cufon code to replace certain text on the screen, the backgrounds seem to fade out in a gradient fashion fro...

Ext GWT change ContentPanel background color on mouseover

In my page I have a Gxt ContentPanel with a white background. However, when the user mouses over the Header of the ContentPanel, I would like the background to change colors. I tried achieving this by using the protected addStyleOnOver method of Gxt Component, but it doesn't have any effect. Is there anything else I need to do to use th...

Change input background to transparent in Safari.

Is it possible to eliminate the white background (via CSS) in the input and textareas when you click in the field using Safari or any other browser? Here is my link: link text Cheers. Erik ...

iPhone4 app does not load from "Recently Used App" list, just get blank black screen

Hi All, I am running into a very odd issue. I have an app that works perfectly, compiles with no errors, and when launch from springboard loads perfectly. It will load from springboard every time correctly, even if it is running in the background. However, sometime if I launch the app from the recently used app list, by hitting the h...

.NET UserControl inherit parent form background

I have a WinForms control inherited from TreeView and I want it to automatically adjust background color according to the form (also customized) background. How to make it? ...

iPhone iOS 4: how do you go from background to foreground in objective-c

Hi, I am trying to make my application that is in the background come to the foreground after a call is disconnected. Here is the code: if([[UIApplication sharedApplication] canOpenURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"tel:0123456789"]]){ [[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"tel:0123456789"]]; } else { // Could no...

Background image technique

Is there any tehnical term for the full-image centered technique? Example: topgear.com, http://safe.tumblr.com/theme/preview/979, and many others which I don't recall. ...

iPhone: Grouped TableView background image problem

Hey everyone, this seems like it should be a simple one; I really hope it is. As always, thanks in advance! All I'm trying to do is add a background image to a grouped style tableview. I'm using the following method in viewDidLoad: self.tableView.backgroundColor = [UIColor colorWithPatternImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"background.png"]]...

Manual background div slideshow

Hello, I need to make a css background image fade slideshow. For several reasons, i cannot have a physical div in my html. It's the body with a class called -home- that has a current background. There will be 4 pictures for the slideshow, no more, no less, so that doesn't have to dynamic. I already have the following jquery: <script t...

How to stretch background image of a table cell with CSS?

How can I stretch background image of a table cell with CSS? I have Googled without results. When you set background image of a cell and the background size is smaller than the cell, then it will be repeated. How can I force this background to stretch the entire table cell instead? ...